↗The Matrix Spat Me Out, and I Love It
I spent years trying to make myself fit a conventional life. Eventually I started wondering whether the failures were not evidence that something was …
The body of work.
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↗EVERYTHING ELSE IS INFRASTRUCTURE
I think I’ve finally admitted something to myself: art is the most important thing to me. Work, money, technology and all the practical machinery …
↗LET’S GO
DAVIEY’s statement of intent: English, Sheng and Swahili wordplay about survival, versatility, ambition and moving into an artistic life.
↗A Chance of Rage
A darker companion series set in a Nairobi where a masked figure called Rage confronts people accustomed to escaping consequences.
Fateci Caso↗
Fateci Caso
Essays and observations by DAVIEY on identity, ambition, belief, art and the small absurdities through which a life reveals itself.
↗Domestic Propaganda™
An ongoing typographic art and interior print series that treats ordinary thoughts, Kenyan expressions and everyday absurdities with the visual seriousness of government notices …
Kings Forge↗
Kings Forge
The creative and technology practice founded by Davies Musau: identities, websites, campaigns, products and operational systems.
↗Top Dog Season
The first chapter of DAVIEY’s three-album arc: music connected to the people, tensions and screen stories of the Dog Pound world.
A Decent Chance↗
A Decent Chance
A Nairobi workplace comedy-drama about Jack Mwangi, Mataa Creative and the awkward business of finally getting the chance you kept asking for.
THIS IS DAVIEY↗
THIS IS DAVIEY
Music, film, writing, art and systems by DAVIEY. Made in Nairobi, connected by questions of dignity, identity, survival and the freedom to create.
Notes From Base Reality↗
Notes From Base Reality
The Fateci Caso essay imprint: looking beneath labels, inherited explanations and other people’s verdicts to inspect the experience underneath.
↗The Unbridled Wrath of a Fallen Titan
What happens when extraordinary minds become prisoners of their own hesitation, while lesser talents boldly seize the opportunities they were too afraid to pursue? …
↗A Particularly Nice Form of Disdain
She said she was a nice person. Then came the little comments about my mother, my absent father, and the life she thought I …
Getting Fired, Miracles and the Case of the Invisible Tenant↗
Getting Fired, Miracles and the Case of the Invisible Tenant
A personal Fateci Caso essay on dismissal, hunger, kindness, inexplicably uncollected rent and the work that kept a future imaginable.
An Utter Waste of Time↗
An Utter Waste of Time
The early collected writing of Davies Musau: poems on selfhood, belief, class, love and the pressure to become acceptable, alongside short fiction.
An Utter Waste of Time: Revisited↗
An Utter Waste of Time: Revisited
A planned annotated return to the early poems: what the younger writer saw, what persists, and what the work looks like from here.
Memento Mori↗
Memento Mori
Mortality, postponed lives and compromised conscience in the early fiction of Davies Musau, with a continuing home for short stories.
The Thirteenth Folder↗
The Thirteenth Folder
A writer inherits an old typewriter and unfinished manuscripts. The invitation to begin again becomes a disturbing question of authorship, memory and choice.
↗What Are We Hiding When We Are Hiding?
Sometimes hiding protects us. Sometimes it protects the version of ourselves that only survives as long as nobody asks it to become real.
↗I Thank God for the Rooms That Never Had Space for Me
Some doors did not open. Some projects collapsed. Some versions of my future simply refused to happen. I am beginning to suspect that none …
Welcome to the Dog Pound↗
Welcome to the Dog Pound
The second planned album in the DAVIEY arc, extending the world beyond the opening declaration of Top Dog Season.
Doggy Style↗
Doggy Style
The third planned album in the connected body of work, associated with confidence, ownership, mastery and the question of what remains.
The Bold and the Fortunate↗
The Bold and the Fortunate
A discussed next release beyond the rap introduction of LET’S GO, showing a different part of DAVIEY’s musical range.
Intruder Alert↗
Intruder Alert
A music-and-print campaign discussed through Domestic Propaganda thermal posters and QR-led discovery.